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silkcom:
Well I'm interested in getting my HDD6330 gogear working with RockBox (maybe then i'll actually use it).

I'm willing to take it apart and start the process, once I find it, I'm wondering if anyone else has one that would like to help.  I am a programmer but really don't know anything about porting embedded stuff.

If someone can help me port it that would be great (the player is awesome, the buttons are awesome, the way the buttons work on the other hand kinda suck).

markun:
The HDD6330 uses a Portalplayer chip, but I see that we don't have a key to decode the firmware:

http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/mi4.html

but I was told that is not needed to run a rockbox bootloader (but could help with the reverse engineering)

btw, it's probably better to look for interested people in a HDD6330 forum (if it exists)

barrywardell:
There's a chance that it just uses the 'default' key. Otherwise, mi4code is able to scan for the key once you have a bootloader and mi4 to scan with. See here for brief instructions: http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/mi4code.html#keyscan

silkcom:
See my problem is that I have no idea what you're talking about (although I do know that it uses the pp5022 (or something like that) which is the same as the IPOD.  My plan was to put forth the time to open it up, scan it, maybe buy a parts version and take everything apart to get everything else, and then ask for help from there (granted I'll put in as much as I can, but I don't know how to continue after that).

barrywardell:
Well, the first thing is to find out if it definitely uses the PP5020, PP5021, PP5022, PP5024 or something else. If it is, then a lot of the porting work is already done.

But, it's likely that at least the LCD and buttons are different. Hopefully the buttons just use GPIO and would be relatively easy to figure out. For the LCD, you need to find out the exact model number and try to find a datasheet for it.

Scans of the inside including the numbers of the chips and LCD would be a good place to start.

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